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    SubjectRe: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3
    Alexandre Oliva wrote:
    > On Jun 14, 2007, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net> wrote:
    >
    >>> When they download the software, they get another copy, and they have
    >>> a right to modify that copy.
    >>>
    >> But you get the TiVO corporations copy of the software?
    >>
    >
    > Yes. The customer gets the copy that TiVO stored in the hard disk in
    > the device it sells. And it's that copy that the customer is entitled
    > to modify because TiVO is still able to modify it.
    >

    No, by this twisted logic Tivo *cannot* modify that particular copy any
    more than you can. They can modify *another* copy (just like you) and
    they can *replace* the copy in your device with the new version (unlike
    you).

    So your entire logical construct does not stand because this is not
    (cannot be) about modifying a particular copy (how would you do that
    anyway? hexedit the binary blob in place?) but about the ability to
    deploy the software on a particular platform.

    ---
    fm

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